Author Talk

About the Program

Filmed at Valley Ranch Library, each episode featured discussions with authors about the story behind their best sellers. These are previously aired shows.

Episode NumberAuthor(s) and Book Title
Episode 1Steve Berry - The Charlemagne Pursuit
Episode 2Stephen J. Cannell - On the Grind
Episode 3Bryan Burrough - The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes
Episode 4E. Lynn Harris - Basketball Jones
Episode 5Amy Dickinson - The Mighty Queens of Freeville
Episode 6Brendan McNally - Germania
Episode 7Barbara Delinsky - While My Sister Sleeps
Episode 8Allegra Huston - Love Child
Episode 9Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor - Traveling with Pomegranates
Episode 10John Bradshaw - Reclaiming Virtue
Episode 11Deborah Crombie - Necessary As Blood 
Episode 12Lisa Patton - Whistlin’ Dixie in a Nor’easter
Episode 13R.V. Burgin - Islands of the Damned
Episode 14Kitty Kelley - Oprah
Episode 15Ernessa Carter - 32 Candles
Episode 16Carol Cassella - Healer
Episode 17John Shors - The Healing Tree
Episode 18Brad Metzler - The Inner Circle
Episode 19Paula McClain - The Paris Wife
Episode 20Geraldine Brooks - Caleb’s Crossing
Episode 21Robin Oliveira - My Name Is Mary Sutter
Episode 22Lee Child - The Affair
Episode 23Deborah Crombie - No Mark Upon Her
Episode 24Brian Freeman - Spilled Blood
Episode 25Tess Gerritsen - Rizzoli & Isles: Last To Die
Episode 26Michael Ennis - Malice of Fortune
Episode 27Kurt Eichenwald - 500 Days: Secrets and Lies in the Terror Wars
Episode 28Melanie Benjamin - The Aviator’s Wife
Episode 29Deborah Crombie - The Sound of Broken Glass
Episode 30Jeff Shaara - A Chain of Thunder
Episode 31Laura Hirsher - Anybody’s Miracle
Episode 32Eve LaPlant - Marmee
Episode 33Nancy Horan - Under the Bright and Starry Sky
Episode 34Craig Johnson - Any Other Name